The Daily Tar Heel from Chapel Hill, North Carolina • Page 1

Miss GeorgieB' Baker, Library Extension Service, Main Library (Basement) nhftpei Hill, N.n. PLAYMAKER READING PLAYMAKER BUILDING TOMORROW 8:30 P. M. WRESTLING DAVIDSON vs. CAROLINA TIN CAN, MONDAY, 8:30 P.M.

NUMBER 57 CHAPEL HILL, N. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1927 VOLUME XXXV arolina Opens Tourney With Easy Victory New Kenan Memorial Stadium Site is in Furor of Activity As Huge'Engine Gnaws at Hillsides TENNESSEE TEAM OLDE SMITHE HALLE COAXES' MOTIVE SWAMPED UNDER TAR HEEL ATTACK IN FLUNKING MEN WAS ALTRUISTIC All Evidence Points To Completion for Thanksgiving Game Underground Conduit Wires Will Trovide for Nightime Proclivities. White Phantoms, Lead by Van- Law School Professor Explains story and Morris, Ride Easily to a 32-17 Win. His Attempt to Raise Standards of School. TO MEET AUBURN TODAY MANY WATCH WORK Actual Construction Work Upon Stands Will Commence About May 1.

N. C. State is Eliminated in QUIETS DEFIANT STUDENTS He Would Make This the Lead- First Round by University of South Carolina. The Carolina White Phantoms, ing School of Law in the Southland. four times Southern Conference The strained situation that champions, easily defeated the has existed since last week be tween Albert Coates and mem University of Tennessee in the opening round of the Southern Conference Championship Bas bers of his class in Property now seems certain of a satisfactory ketball Tournament at Atlanta, and entirely amiable settlement On Thursday morning Mr Georgia, yesterday The score was 31 to tl.

Billy Vanstory, lanky Tar Heel for Coates spoke to the first year This old building probably has the most varied history of any building on any college campus, for it has served as ballroom, library, law building and Playmaker theatre while nineteen college generations enjoyed its use. Its most striking glory was achieved as a ballroom, and in its confines have been held many of Dixieland's most charming and beautiful social affairs. However, since 1885, it has ceased to be the palace where Terpischore reigns and where southern aristocracy and chivalry predominated, but instead has been used to house departments of the University. At present it is the home of the Carolina' Playmakers. 1 Law class assembled in Manning 5 With the playing field virtually leveled, ground cleared, material coming in, and construction of seats to begin soon the "evolution of Carolina's new football field is rapidly taking definite shape.

Already visitors who "trouble themselves enough to their way into the forest and watch the voracious steam-shovel biting hungrily into huge masses of clay, are readily able "to visualize the Thanksgiving "day nine months off when the Universities of North Carolina and Virginia battle for supremacy in the classic that will more than likely be used as the scene for the dedication of the $275,000 monument to the Kenan family. Hall and explained the motive ward, was dropping them through the hoop from all angles of the court, and during the which caused him to issue 15 F's and seven E's to a class of course of the game registered fifty-two members on final ex no less than twelve points to amination. Two Phi Beta stu Tervischore Unsteadily ward the copping of the initial dents were among those who encounter. failed. Mr.

Coates told the stu From Close of War Till Nineties dents that it is his sincere wish The score at half-time was 15-9 in favor of the Carolina lads, but despite the fact that further dancing on the state property By Walter Creech) "Is the dance formal, or do we to raise the standards of the University School of Law to a point that will make it the South's outstanding institution they were able to roll up 17 addi in Chapel Hill. Smith Hall, which as a ballroom had been the scene of the wear our own clothes?" Postpone Track Meet Scheduled for Monday -The indoor track meet which was scheduled to be held in the Tin Can on night, March 7, has been indefinitely postponed due to the non-accredited high school basketball championship game which will be played in the. Can Two short months ago the Once more this eternal question gayest times of college life since 1850, beincr in the fatal zone was rendered was on the lips of the University in that particular branch of higher education. He told the useless as a dance hall, and this students. The gloomy cloud of war site of the new stadium was nothing but woods and undergrowth with a tiny stream trickling peacefully down the center men that he was willing to give temple becatas dedicated solely to had come and gone leaving in its wake the ruin and disaster of reconstruc Dursuits of a library later a law another examination just as hard, but no harden and grade building, and even later a theatre: The University, after eking out tional points during the second half, their shooting and defensive work was by no means equal to that of the first half of the contest.

Worth Morris played his usually brilliant game at the guard, holding his man to a measly three points while he ducked, dived and dribbled all over the court to drop in six points to his own credit. Coach Ashemore started Baggett at of the ravine, And now after six weeks of working night and The politics that year had been quite on that night. on a similar scale, but no harsh heated resulting in the election of two a decadent existence through the dark days of the war and succeeding years was forced to close its doors in 1870. day, a huge red hole has appear separate sets of ball managers. The ed in the earth and the playing Several meetings have been ZETA BETA TAU students finding themselves with a bounty of officials and an absolute lack of ballrooms, became alarmed lest Five years later they were re-opened and again the village became the scene of merry student life.

Danc held between Mr. Coates and the field is practically levelled. The contract calls for the com class in an effort to have him this harsh ruling terminate their pur ing came again to the campus. rpsrind his drastic method of pletion of all excavation by May suit of the dancing art, and began atritation to hold the commencement 1. Immediately following, the actual construction will begin grading, but with his explana tion vesterday there came a sud the pivot position, but as the game progressed he was taken out of the line-up in order to allow Carr Purser an opportunity to show his wares.

MAKES FORMAL BOW TO CAMPUS nstallation Ball at Inn Tonight Will Close Initiation Ceremonies. under the direction of TV den understanding of his posi tion by the students, and instead There was little evidence at the commencement of 1877 that the people were suffering the after-effects of a great war. The Commencement Ball is described by Dr. Battle's History as "very brilliant." The news reporter at the ball interviewed seventy-eight ladies and described their dresses at great length (a feat not attempted today by a reporter ball in Raleigh. President Battle was opposed to their plan and promised the students to get them a ballroom off the campus and after speedy negotiations, the Alumni contributed money for the erection of a building.

The tendency to "beat the devil a-round the bush" in evading the rule of a spirit of antagonism toward the instructor there returned an Butcher, playing the center position for the team from the attitude of the deepest respect anti-evolution state University, Mr. Coates' speech to the class MANY VISITORS ATTEND starred throughout the contest. was carried to such an extent that the was delivered in a masterfu Thompson and Bro. There were 55,000 cubic yards of dirt to be moved, the amount being greatly lessened by the fact that the stadium will be built on the sides of the natural ravine. The completed stadium will contain 4,000 cubic yards of concrete, the greater part of which will be poured over a base of solid dirt.

The earth will be pressed layer Continued on page four) He was high scorer for the building erected on the site of Phillips Hall was only six inches over the way. His sereneness completely Virginia and Washington and Tennessee team. swep the aspiring young bar campus boundary. This building was Lee Chapters Conduct Rites. In the opening rounds yester risters completely away from a day N.

C. State was eliminated in quest of news copy volume). The annual ball in Smith Hall, now the Playmaker Theatre, continued to be the crowning social event of the year. The new regime discontinued the ante-bellum practice of having a supper to climax the final ball for financial and other reasons: "other reasons being that the feasts led to rowdiness and disorderly conduct. stand of defiance which had The Installation Ball tonight by the University of South Car characterized their actions for at the Carolina Inn will conclude the celebration of the advent of the past several days, and those olina.

The score was 32-26. Van-derbilt had an easy win over W. students who had led a move the final score being 44- the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity to ment to boycott the professor 32. Auburn was able to capture the campus. The formal instal showed a decided change of at a hard-earned victory over V.

P. a crude structure with most of the money expended on the perfection of the dancing floor which is said to have never been equalled here for its purpose. During the eighties, the German Club was organized to promote dancing on the campus, and instead of one dance at Commencement there came to be three: the Senior Ball on the night of Commencement and, two others known as Germans, on the following afternoon and night. There was a Fall German on University Day (October 12) and a Spring German. The Germans, at which, if we Continued on page four) titude.

lation ceremonies for the installation of Zeta Epsilon, local fra The speech which Mr. Coates ternity, as Alpha Pi chapter I. by the score of 38-33. University of Georgia rode roughshod over V. M.

I. for a 36-14 victory. delivered to the class was: The waltz, the polka, an occasional reel, and even a new fashioned ger-man were danced at the very formal balls of the "mushy seventies." Campus Dancing Taboo Sometime about 1880 there arose among the people of the state an ardent sentiment of opposition to dancing on the University campus and the Drotest became so heated that the VALUABLESETOF LAW BOOKS WON BY JEFFFORDIIAM American Law Book Company Donates Corpus Juris to Uest Law Student. were held yesterday afternoon. Gentlemen: A banquet at the Carolina Inn At.

vour meeting Monday Atlanta sports scribe in pick last night in honor of the instal morning you appointed a com ing probable tournament stars mittee to see me about your examination erades and report lation team from the University of Virginia and Washington and Lee. national officers trustees in 1885 saw fit to forbid any placed Worth Morris at the top of their list. Others on the hnoV at a meeting Monday night group from which many of the Dean Carroll Asks and other visitors 'followed the A Colorful Collision Thev came. I told them that if SIXTY VOLUMES IN SET Is First Time That Prize Has Been Offered Here. induction ceremonies.

George Senior's Criticism All-Southern choices will prob-Continued on page four) they were sent, or if they came, Se- MacVi National Executive Sec Negro's Coupe and White Man's in the way of threat, I had notn dan Crashed Yesterday. Commerce School's Discussion of retary of i the fraternity, is a- ing to say to you. They assured mong the prominent fraternity CAMPUS PROBLEMS SUBJECT OF LEAGUE Teaching Methods Fails to Arouse Interest. me that no threat was involved; A coupe driven by a negro boy men here for the occasion. that thev had come to reach an Tonkht the climax will be understanding.

I talked to them B. Fordham, former president of the student body and present member of the first year law class, has recently been awarded a set of Corpus Juris, a prize given the member of the At the Friday afternoon meet Ten Minute Speeches Will Be Made by and a sedan driven by a white traveling man smashed fenders and bumper in front of the post reached at the crowning social three hours. On that same basis Glenn, Watt, and Fordham. event of the week-end the In Continued on page three) ing with the Commerce School to discuss present teaching methods in that department, stallation Ball at the Carolina office yesterday afternoon about four o'clock. class in Legal Bibliography for Tnn.

A laree number of girls WRF.STLERS TACKLE Dean Carroll announced that he Little damage resulted from have been invited to the Hill for the best work in legal research The set at present contains for DAVIDSON MONDAY would be open to seniors' sug the encounter, except to the boy who appeared very fright University problems will be aired in the Epworth League at the regular Sunday night meeting, 6:45. There will be three 10 minute speeches by prominent men on the campus. Frazier Glenn will discuss "Why I Be the event and the new fraternity is makintr every effort to have Is Initial Encounter of Wildcat Team ened in spite of the fact that he its initial dance a brilliant af gestions for improvement. In that connection he said that a unity of opinion would be desirable in order to make any ty-one volumes which cover all the law alphabetically from A through Mortgages; additional volumes are issued as soon as With Coach Quinlans Men. was considered by the spectators not to be at fault.

The A match between the David lieve Drinking is a Moral Harm" fair. Representatives of all the greek organizations on the campus and numberous out-of-town visitors will be guests in the ball changes. Whatever is done to white man argued for himself compiled. When completed the Corpus Juris will be a complete encyclopedia of American law son wrestling team and the University grapplers will be held meet the desires of seniors, it was decided, must result from a united action. among the judicious' students who championed the cause of the negro.

They contended that the white man was driving too fast Monday night, 8:30. room tonight. The Carolina Buccaneers have been engaged contained in sixty volumes. Laurence Watt will give his "Interpretation of the Honor System," and Jeff Fordham will explain the issue, "In a Political Frameup a Moral Harm." Margaret Eubanks will render a vocal solo. The wildcats have made a rec The basis of the award was a ord this year that deserves much Tar Heel subscription is low problem involving a number of and ignored the sign of the boy hf attempted to turn a- because of the co-operation of to play for the function.

Zeta Beta Tau, the twenty ninth national fraternity to in Continued on page four) comment and the encounter is attracting the interest of all lo questions in law, the answers to which were to be found in the the advertisers. round the street Bignal. cal sportsmen. (Continued on page three).